Edinburgh News - April 2008: Buildings in Scotland

April 2008

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Cambridge College Jesus College Cambridge by Edinburgh's Richard Murphy Architects - 30 Apr Boilerhouse Flats Melrose flats in Peter Womersley building by Edinburgh architects Studio DuB Haymarket Green Bennetts Associates’ 40,000 sqft office redevelopment for Duddingston House Properties gets planning approval. Haymarket Green designed to achieve BREEAM Excellent rating, located in former 1960's Job Centre at 24-26 Torphichen Street Swan Bridge Clydebank bridge canopy by RMJM - new image No. 42 Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov puts 42 St Andrew Square up for lease Donside urban village Planning approval for largest affordable home development in North East Scotland at former Donside Paper Mill, Tillydrone, Aberdeen: 25-acre brownfield site, 278 new homes Anderston Compulsory Purchase? Glasgow City Council could use compulsory purchase to progress £40m regeneration by Sanctuary Scotland HA of Anderston site with 495 houses Major New Scottish Hospital New Southern General Hospital Glasgow - images 230408 Budongo Primate Experience Budongo Trail at Edinburgh Zoo Lindifferon Court Conversion of Category B steading in Fife to form four houses, by Elizabeth Roxburgh Architects New Council Housing Deputy First Minister announces Scottish local authorities to receive £25m package to build new council houses over next three years: target of 35,000 new houses per year by 2015. Legislation to end the right to buy for new build social houses due soon Highland Housing : Fair Reports suggest the Highland Housing Fair - investigated by the Scottish Public Service Ombudsman re possible contravention of local development plan - will be reprieved. With only 4 months before the launch the organisers, Highland Housing Alliance, and the 25 architects will need a fair wind Hearts Stand Stumble Update due 22 April on slow progress of land deals to facilitate new Hearts FC stand Richard Murphy in Essex Housing Feature in BD praises Richard Murphy Architects’ sensitive housing at New Hall in Harlow, influenced by Peter Aldington’s courtyard home and Jørn Utzon’s Fredensborg housing Triple Kirks News Stewart Milne Developments acquires derelict Triple Kirks in Aberdeen ‘It’s the Economy Stupid’ Improved demand in Edinburgh office market has been accompanied by reduction in supply according to property agents Cushman & Wakefield. Take up in the first quarter of 2008 is over 200,000 sqft with 700,000 sqft. Headline rents due to increase to £30/sqft in 2008. Four major Grade A developments - The Cube, Exchange Place, Quartermile 6 & Westport – only scheduled for completion in 2009 Venice Result Venice Architecture Biennale Exhibition Result - due 21 Apr New HQ for SNP? The Scottish National Party and News International, publishers of The Sun, are both vying to take space at Gordon Lamb House, by 3DReid Oslo Opera House How the Norwegians deal with their capital's docklands - Snøhetta building Design At The Heart Of House Building Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani launched the report, Design At The Heart Of House Building, as a starting point for architects, developers and local authorities to work together to deliver higher quality, design-led, sustainable housing and communities - a key ambition of the Scottish Government. Ms Fabiani stressed how the government is striving to be more 'user friendly' to developers and others involved in the building process, citing the move to bring architecture policy, building standards and planning together in a new Directorate for the Built Environment. Design Tsar Prospect magazine’s special edition is out, with the Design Champion explaining his initiatives for Edinburgh Edinburgh University Tender Waddington Complex - £8.3m phase 2 appointment of a design team, submissions by May 12: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/edinburghuni Scottish Huf Haus Macfarlane Homes launch first Huf Haus development in Scotland at Rutherford Gardens, West Linton. Two Huf Hauses and a pair of Huf extensions will complement the restored Rutherford House gm+ad New Edinburgh building by gm+ad architects : Potterrow Student Apartments GSA Honour Andy + Isi Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein to be awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glasgow on behalf of The Glasgow School of Art Shortlisted RIBA Awards shortlist for Scotland 2008 - 6 out of 8 in Glasgow, 0 in Edinburgh: BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay, Glasgow Castlemilk Stables, Glasgow Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Culloden Moor G20 (phase1), 51-353 Glasgow Harbour Terraces Hazlewood School, Glasgow Lochside View, Cumbernauld Road, Glasgow New Arts Faculty Building for the University of St Andrews Piers Arts Centre, Victoria Street, Stromness Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns, Scottish Borders St Aloysius Residence and Spirituality Centre, 70 Hill Street, Glasgow Prospect magazine Special edition outlining Terry Farrell's Edinburgh challenge, out 14 Apr. Meanwhile, Editor Penny Lewis is leaving the publication to teach architecture at RGU Farrell: Edinburgh Underground Cinema Sir Terry Farrell proposes £20m underground Filmhouse in Festival Square, accessed via a Louvre-style entry Mull Theatre Progress photographs of CiAO’s new Mull Theatre Scottish Castles Photos added : Scottish Castles - Dunstaffnage Castle + Kilchurn Castle Scottish Home Awards Award News : Results More Microgeneration Money Scotland to triple its budget for microgeneration projects to £13.5m a year. In a separate development, there’s a new UK-wide pot of Lottery funding for Low Carbon Buildings – up to £2500 for a domestic application: Sustainable Architecture News Scottish Design Awards Nominations for architectural categories of Scottish Design Awards 2008 Bush Building The University of Edinburgh is planning a £58.5m building as part of a £100m investment in the Roslin Institute. The Roslin Institute will join the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies within the University's College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The institute will move to the new building next to the new Vet School development at Easter Bush, Midlothian, planned for completion in 2010. Helensburgh Student Competition RIAS Competition : winner, 9 Apr Thatched House Unusual & luxurious East Lothian House nr Pencaitland Usher Hall News Despite ongoing delays to the extension & redevelopment project CEC’s Deputy Leader Steve Cardownie confirmed the Usher Hall will be available at full capacity for the Edinburgh Festival. Due to complete this October Dawyck Botanic Gardens Simpson & Brown's visitor centre, Peeblesshire, to open 16 April Lerwick Cinema + Music Venue Shetland arts venue by Glasgow's Gareth Hoskins Architects receives £2.1m from SAC Capital Lottery Fund, kickstarting the project 2 years after the competition win Cityscapers Exhibition of propositions for central belt - Edinburgh Events Easter Road Fire Photos by Frazer Hay, linked below: 50 firefighters tackled Albion Place fire (Bellway Homes construction site) as Hibs played St Mirren next door, Albion Gardens residents evacuated as 60ft crane became unstable St Andrew Square Famous New Town square goes public at last: St Andrew Square Craigmillar Photos of the demise of the old Craigmillar Budongo Trail Edinburgh Zoo Primate enclosure by Cooper Cromar Architects complete JUMP Leith Docks Masterplan - AiA News David Hume's Mausoleum Proposals by Simpson & Brown for David Hume's Mausoleum George IV Hotel Progress shots of Allan Murray Architects' George IV Bridge building Sixth Form College Newcastle College by Edinburgh architects RMJM Greenlaw Town Hall Berwickshire building that lost out in the BBC Restoration programme finally gets a grant, £500k from Historic Scotland's Building Repair Grant Scheme Paisley Museum Renfrewshire Council pre-feasibility study by Page/Park architects - theatre in redeveloped museum Informatics Building Latest Potterrow images : Bennetts Associates RMJM Again Peter Morrison speaks out again, criticising the cult of the “starchitect” for diminishing the role of architects Strathclyde Faculty £60m Faculty of Education building proposed by Strathclyde University on George Street and will see the Faculty relocate from Jordanhill to unite the University on one campus. Other new buildings incl. an Institute for Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences and a Sports & Health Centre PMP Inverness PMP Architecture is opening an office in Inverness Domestic Wind Turbines Axed Planning relaxations will come into force from 6 Apr: Sustainable Building News Acharacle School Flat-pack 'mass timber' Ardnamurchan school by Edinburgh’s Gaia Architects. The £5.8m ‘airtight’ building’s classrooms have a heating requirement of just 1 kilowatt

Donald Trump Golf Resort Proposals
Meadowbank Stadium
Scottish Schools
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
St James Centre
Tynecastle Stadium
Quartermile

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